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BT1I.L, TinVRlNO or THEIR PARTT.
Untaught by the disastrous conse-'
quences, both to their party and the
world, of their Injection of partisan
ship Into foreign affairs, the demo
crat now repeat the blunder. The
publicity department of the demo
cratic national committee has issued
a statement declaring: the conference
on armaments a failure before It has
met. The sincerity of Fresident
Harding in calling It Is questioned,
the call being represented as a re
luctant responre to public opinion,
aroused by Senator Borah's naval
disarmament resolution, and the
president and Senator Lodge being
described as "unsympathetic toward
disarmament or world peace." Si
multaneous consideration of Asiatic
questions, it Is said, "can operate
only against speedy and successful
results." Some democratic papers
damn the conference as a blow
aimed at the league of nations, which
they have consecrated as an ark of
the sanctuary. Others see, in it a
realization on the part of militarists
that they have made the burden of
war taxation too heavy even for
themselves.
The pretended fear that the con
ference will fail is a mask to hide
partisan fear that It will succeed, for
its basis is so shaky that the de
votedly Wllsonlnn New York Eve
ning Post assails It with ridicule.
The best proof of Mr. Harding's
sincerity is that, after Mr. Wilson's
course had caused our Isolation from
the other great powers, he brought
us Into co-operation with them
again, both by participation in their
councils and by calling the confer
ence. Their faith .In him was dis
played not only by the alacrity with
which they accepted his Invitation,
but by the efforts of Japan to put
itself in good standing before the
conference opens. That country
evidently foresees that the other
powers may agree on some general
policy toward China with which Ja
pan's present position would not
harmonize, and It prefers to ex
change that position in advance for
one that is more nearly In line with
the prospective agreement, when the
alternative may be to be required
to change it by the combined pres.
sure of four great powers with the
triumphantly smiling Chinese dele
gates in the background. Japan
certainly expects the conference to
succeed, though it has less reason
than any nation to hope for that
outcome.
The narrowly partisan motive of
the democratic manifesto Is betrayed
by the interpretation of the confer
ence as a blow at the league of na
tions. The democratic theory from
the opening of the Paris conference
to!the present day has been that the
only way in whluh world peace and
disarmament can be secured is
through the league of nations, and
that any attempt to reach those ends
in any other way Is a blow aimed at
Mr. Wilson and his party through
the league. This Is to assume that
the people have already forgotten
the struggle between Mr. Wilson and
the senate and that they did not
five their verdict last November.
Having striven to use peacemaking
and the league as political capital in
the election of 1920, the democrats
in effect accuse their opponents of
undertaking the Washington confer
ence in order to create capital for
themselves and to destroy that of the
democrats. They take no heed of the
good that the world would derive
from success of the conference. They
descend from the mount of idealism,
from which they have preached sal
vation to a suffering world, to the
mire or practical politics, recking
not what becomes of the world so
their party wins.
Mr. Harding adapts to present cir
cumstances the policy that the re
publican senators proposed, and Mr.
Wilson rejected in March, 1919, that
the five great powers establish world
peace as a preliminary to dlsarma
Bicnttind formation of a league. The
practical nature of his course stands
out in contrast with the Impractical
one that Mr. Wilson followed. He
sees that the impetus to any such
movement must come from the great
powers, for no other power could
withstand not only their united will,
but thoir united moral influence. He
also sees that reduction of arma
ments cannot be expected until the
powers have adjusted all open ques
tions that may involve them in war.
That is what Germany and Austria
did before forming their alliance.
nd their neglect to settle matters
with Italy led that country to go
over to. their enemies. It is what
Hritain, France and Russia did be
fore forming the triple entente, and
it held till Russia went to pieces.
The European powers have provided
for adjustment of the Silosian ques.
tion and they only await the out
come of the Greco-Turklnh war to
settle affairs there. Mr. Harding
proposed a conference on far eastern
affairs because they are the only
ones threatening to peace in which
the United States is concerned and
for adjustment of which no pro
vision has been made.
Thore is nothing inimical to the
league In Mr. Harding's method o
approach to limitation of armaments.
The other powers to be represented
at the conference could not be ex
pected to act in that direction till
far eastern affairs were adjusted,
nor unless- this country acted with
them. The agreements to be made
at Washington should clear the way
for Britain, France, Italy and Japan
to accept the plan of disarmament
prepared by the league commission,
and that plan may be accepted by
the American delegates at Washing
ton or modified to meet their views.
Backed by all the great powers, it
could then be adopted by all other
nations in confidence that this back
ing would array all those powers
agatnst any nation which then
armed for supremacy. The confer
once will also afford the strongest
mem hers of the league an oppor
tunity to discuss with the American
delegates and overcome the objec
tions of this nation to the covenant
It offers a way out of the blind alley
Into which Mr. Wilson led us and
opens a new way of approach.
Mr. Harding knows that the Amer
ican people will condemn a policy
of isolation. He was given the right
to bring about co-operation with
other nations in his own way, freed
from the embarrassments in which
Mr. Wilson's partisan obstfnacy in
volved the republic. If the result of
the election meant anything, it
meant that the people will not tol
erate subordination of the interest
of this nation and of the world to
the determination of any party to
have things done in their way or not
at all. It meant Just that to the
irreconcilablcs at both extremes of
ths league dispute.
THE KCIfOOL FOR MARRIAGE.
Frequently some one of the multi
tude of public officials in America,
being close to a particular social or
economic problem, 19 driven to the
distraction of proposing an outland
ish and Impossible reform. Such
was the plight of Judge Harry Lewis
of Chicago when he gravely asserted
that the remedy for our divorce evil
should be a school for matrimony.
Gathered Into the classroom, the
ellglbles of the nation would learn,
from textbook and experienced ln
atructor, the- principles of conjugal
.'tliclty. They would learn to bound
the state of wedded bliss, chart the
sea .of marriage and forecast the
weather in Arcadia, A lovely pic
ture! Critics of the good judge's plan
for perpetual orange blossoms, come
fair weather or foul, will hesitate to
be cynical. But they will be con
strained to reflect that, so far as
happy marriages are concerned,
matrimony is Itself a school wherein
all may learn the elementary requis
ites of happiness, but where the
pupils too often show a peevish,
petulant or frivolous disinclination
to study. It is much to be doubted if
those characters which find in time
the shoals of divorce could steer a
straighter course if they had re
ceived previous instruction from al
leged expert navigators. And- It is
equally to be doubted that, though
there were interminable shelves of
textbooks, one in quest of truth could
discover the particular advice, axiom
or formula that would apply to some
peculiar dilemma arising after mar
riage. Indeed, folk might be taught there
the law of affinities, or that little
which is known about so nebulous a
subject only to discover In prac
tical life that the authorities were
inlHtaken, or that fondnesB lends an
enchantment against which all
scholarly warning is ineffectual.
Then, too, we sadly fear that as the
course progressed the erudite pro
fessors of Hymen would call the roll
and- register distress at the number
of absentees who had left school
and taken a cottage without com
pleting the required curriculum.
Truancy would be the common fail
ing in that institute of higher hap
piness. How disconcerting it would
prove, to hazard another probability,
if propinquity should kindle within
the classroom a match or so that
did not at all accord with the sage
instructions of the faculty.
Miss Lucy Stebb'.ns. dean of women
at the University of California, who
necessarily speaks from observation
and not experience, disposes of Judge
LewU school for matrimony by re
torting that it is absurd to imagine
any formula for wedded happiness.
"Marriage is so much a matter of
individual character," she said, "that
I do not see how such a school could
accomplish much in bringing about
happy marriages. Young people
brought up in a happy and congenial
home environment have had the ad
vantage of the best school for matri
mony there is."
So we return again to the de
linquency of the home. It Is In the
home, indeed, by precept and ex
ample, that married folk should in
struct the young generation in the
simple truths which make for con
tentment. Doubtless the first reaann
why there were so few' divorces,
comparatively, a generation ago, is
that in grandmother's time there
were fewer popinjays and flurfy
heads and more regard for the
homespun virtues. When they
hoisted over the open fireplace the
old worsted motto, "God bless our
home," they meant every word of
it. Nowadays it is the fashion to
find amusement in such relics of the
past but there is little enough
kiupaement in divorce.
BLIND TO ACTL'ALITI E8 ABOUT WAR.
Why was the Rev, N. K. Tully
"grieved to read that President Har
ding had intimated the possibility of
a great armed conflict?" If he
denies that possibility, his mind must
be impervious to the lessons not
merely of all history but of the most
tragic event of his own lifetime. The
proneness of man to fight, to seek
satisfaction of his desires by vio
lence, is plain to all who can 'see,
hear and think. It is as plain as to
the aggregations of men which we
call nations as of individuals. If Mr.
Tully's grief be prompted by denial
or this fact, then he is a living ex
ample of the truth of these words of
Mr. Harding in the same speech to
which he referred:
The trouble with the world today la that
thcra are too many theorlati who know
ntlhing of actualillec.
Closing his mind to the actuality
that some nations wantonly attack
others, the preacher says:
I f-el humiliated that I am a citizen
of a trnlted Btatea that la takl-f the plait
of Germany In the race for world leader
ship In armamentaeand war preparedness.
He should carry his mind back to
the days when the United States took
the world leadership In unprepared
ness and thereby gave Germany the
opportunity to come within a hair's
breadth of inflicting on him and
every citizen of every free nation a
degree of humiliation which, he
would have felt far more poignantly.
The whole tenor of his speech be
trayed that confusion of thought
which prevents men from distin
guishing between that readiness for
defense which Is prompted by recog
nized possibility of attack and arma
ment for aggressive war. He can see
no distinction between Belgium and
Germany, and he would seemingly
have this nation as defenseless
against attack by Germany or any
other nation of the same character
as was Belgium with its gallant but
over-matched little army.
The reverend Mr. Tully does not
feel that the disarmament confer
ence "can or will solve the problem
of future wars." Then why be
humiliated that the United States
prepares against war? It does not
rest with us alone to decide whether
there shall be war. If another na
tion attacks us, we must fight or
submit. If the attack finds us un
prepared, defeat will be almost cer
tain and the price even if we should
win final victory would be the
heavier.
Mr. Harding's position- is easy to
understand. Realizing the actuality
that war is possible, he alms to keep
the nation prepared to defend itself.
Any ouggestion of attack by this
nation on any other finds no warrant
in Its history, for all its wars have
been in self-defense or in aid of an
oppressed nation like Cuba that was
fighting for freedom. He also seeks
to diminish the danger and extent of
war and the burden of preparation
by bringing about agreements which
v. ill remove possible causes of war
and by general reduction of arma
ments. He no doubt looks for a fur
ther general Agreement among all
nations to settle by arbitration, medi
ation or a world court many dis
putes which might cause war. That
is a great advance toward removing
the possibility of war by admitting
ir stead of by denying it.
But the good gentleman from Wis
consin expatiates so fully on the
amount of genius that is devoted to
inventing new, horrible Implements
of war and on the amount of the
public revenue that Is spent on ar
mament as to imply belief that these
inventions directly cause war. That
is akin to the theory on which pre
war pacifists constantly enlarged,
that mur.itlon manufacturers clam
ored for war in order that they might
profit by it. According to that the
ory Alexander the Great, Julius
Caesar, Attlla the Hun. Charle
magne. Moha'mmed the Great, Napo
leon and ex-Kaiser William were
tools of the munition manufacturers
and were seduced into fighting bat
t'es ia order to gratify the avarice
of some of .their subjects. This is to
assume that the blacksmiths and
other artisans of ancient times, who
made swords, battleaxes, shields,
bows and. arrows and were the mun-tlon-makers
of their day, had a tre
mendous pull and that the rest o!
the people had no appetite for war.
It is barely possible, however, that
Mr. Tully, whose residence is near
the great German city of Milwaukee,
may have been unduly impressed by
the views expressed by Victor Berget
and other opponents of war against
Germany. They accused the Amer
ican people of fighting at the bidding
of the munition manufacturers, not
for our rights at sea and for thi
freedom of nations.
WHAT THE OTHER FEIXOW WOIJJ3
10.
Many schemes are proposed by
which the government shall force
ocean traffic to shipping board ves
sels, extending from discriminative
railroad rates in favor of goods im
ported or to be exported on Amer
ican vessels to the extreme of huge
monopolies to be organized and
backed by the shipping board, which
would control the entire transporta
tion by rail and water of certain
staple commodities like flour. It
also proposed to penalize the ships
of another nation which are given
preference over our ships in carry
ing goods from their oversea pos
sessions. The impracticability of such
schemes when no nation is able
to control completely its own carry
ing trade, since all of its commerce
is also the commerce of some other
nation, is pointed out by the British
shipping journal Fair Play. Re
ferring to the demand that American
ships carry cotton from Kgypt when
the exporters awarded the contract
to a British line, and to the ship
ping board's threat of penalties on
the British ships when they reached
American ports. It says such action
"can only breed trouble, especially
when it is remembered that America
is an exporting rather than an im
porting nation."
The point of that remark is that
the buyer has the' right to direct
how goods shall be carried and that,
if penalties were imposed on ships
of his flag be would be more than
ever disposed to route his pur
chases of American goods by other
than American lines. Any attempt
to depart from his instructions In
order to give traffic to American
ships would interfere with the
financing of the sale and might pre
vent It -altogether. The injury to
our export trade would react on our
industries. Fair Play also suggests
the possibility of most effective re
taliation by saying:
Were America In certain circumstances
to put an Import tax ofh say 5 per cent on
goods Imported In British steamera, aa
mm of her public men are urging her to
do, we (Brl'alnl ought to ba poaaeaied of.
the nacesaary machinery enabling tia to
eat-lude all vaeaela under tha American
flag from carrying cargo between Hrltiah
porta all over tha world, and to Impose a
tax on gooda carried in American vesaela
Having regard to tha world's economic
position and to tha threats to our marl
time aupremacy, wo ought intelligently to
anticipate what our keen, powerful com
petltora will b likely to do to wreat our
trade from us, and we ought to be pre
pared to act. Wa ought, for Inatanca. to
be able to meet tha differential rail rates
propoaed without having to go to tha
houaa of commona. Tha power to Impoae
a apaclal tax ahould already ba on our
atatuta book a v
The full import of that proposal
is that a preferential duty on goods
carried on foreign ships would be
met by exclusion of American ships
from the carrying trade between
ports in the entire British empire,
which was tied together more closely
than ever to trade within itself at
the recent imperial conference. If
section 28 of the Jones law, con
fining the benefit of import and ex
port rates to goods carried on
American ships, should be put in
effect, a special retaliatory tax on
goods carried in American ship
would be Immediately Imposed by
crder in council without delay for
action by parliament.
We cannot adopt any restrictive
or preferential measures to com
pensate for the higher cost of build
ing and operating American ships
that would not be nullified by re
taliatory acts of the other nations
affected. No device is possible by
which we can escape paying the
cost of our senseless navigation and
seamen's laws. We should have a
severe struggle at best to capture
onr share f the ocean carrying
trade. We have suddenly come into
possession of a great merchant ma
rine, but that is only one part of
the machinery for a successful ship
ping business. Other maritime na
tions have been building up the
complete machine for centuries. It
includes owners and merchants
steeped in Inherited knowledge of
the sea and foreign trade, branches
in many distant ports, banks, insur
ance companies and consuls, all of
which work together as one com
bination to expand the nation's trade
and to defend it against competitors.
We have little besides the ships and
have yet to build the rest of the
machine. When we have done that
and have- cut the cost of running
ships to an equality with our com
petitors we shall be able to get our
fhare of the business. No shipping
board can do this; it can "only be
done by private enterprise. The best
that the board can do is to give
private enterprise a Btart and then
retire from the scene.
COPPERHEADS THEN AND 'OW,
Now that the peril Is past and the
world war won for civilization It
would appear that, in the penetralia
of strife, we somewhat overestimated
the evil abilities of certain elements
which sought to retard and hinder
American participation. Such re
flection does not draw in its train
the thought of regret for the rigor
ous methods by which we dealt with
secret foes, once they were disclosed,
nor of clemency for those who still
are paying the penalties they in
curred. Nor does it lessen the dis
taste of the citizenry for those un
punished culprits whose hearts were
bad, but whose designs remained
under cover. But it does quicken In
all a pride for the common accom
plishment of victory, which, as Gen
eral Pershing declares, was made
possible by the courage and faith of
a united nation.
It is entirely unlikely that, any
nation, however Just its cause, will
ever enter battle without its camp
following of malcontents and ill
wishers. Yet so stable a thing Is na
tional character, when aroused for
1 principle, that the yapping of these
wemi-secret renegades is no more
than stimulative of the purpose and
will to win. In a recent issue the
New York Post delves into unwrit
ten history of civil war days for a
partial record of the copperhead
tctivities that so aroused" the north.
Biologically the copperhead Is a
snake. Politically he does not differ.
The facts, once common to the
knowledge of the nation, are of par
ticular interest, as they are now ex
humed in the light of recent experi
ence. It is disturbing to our general
opinion of a united northern front
against slavery, in those days that
tried the souls of men, to be re
minded that many of the copper
head, or democratic, newspapers of
the metropolis were boldly arrayed
against the union cause, employing
every device of misstatement and
omisElon to convey the impression
that the south was a martyr to prin
ciple and that the federal forces
were meeting deserved defeat. It
was even seriously proposed by a
copperhead leader, Fernando Wood,
then mayor of New York, that the
city secede from the union. Wood
in subsequent campaign speeches
asserted that President Lincoln was
urging America to the brink of ruin
and that the abolitionists were more
concerned, in war profits than in
human emancipation. As for eman
cipation. It was declared by Manton
Marble, editor of the New York
World, to portend "industrial disor
ganization, social chaos, negro equal
ity" and other dire calamities.
Were an observer from. Mars to
have descended for a review of
American affairs" these signs of dis
affection unquestionably would have
impressed him with the apparent
weakness of the north. He would
have departed with the opinion that
the federal cause was hopelessly
rundered and, at the least possible
expectation of southern success, an
armistice would determine7 that
slavery should endure. Yet the truth
was that the hissing of the copper
heads was not re-echoed in the pub
lic mind, but completely repudiated
by republican victories at the polls
and by federal success in the field.
The New York Post, in Its issue of
March 16. 1863, summed up the fu
tility of the copperheads in these
words:
It certainly la remarkable how little able
tha newspapera of the country, even ehoae
of tha largest circulation, have been to
divert tha public mind from a fixed deter
mination to put down tha rebellion by
every poMb!e meana. and to allow no
pause in ftie war till the Integrity of tha
Union is fully assured.
There was no lack of copperheads
in America during the world war.
They held forth to the disaffected
and they sometimes lectured in our
colleges and universities. They were
distinct from the pro-German, yet
their antipathy to the American
cause made them actual allies of the
enemy, if not his open sympathizers.
We called them radicals, for the
most part, though there were some
whose craft was more insidious. At
times doubt assailed ' us, or the
shadow of dubiety, as to the'soli
darity of America. They did not
fcpeak for America, or for any ap
preciable degree of opinion, as we
were o learn. America went ahead
with the war. kicking them aside or
treading them down, or ignoring
them.
The history of civil war times was
repeated. The cause of the many
was victorious, despite the venom of
the few. If we have learned aught
that should be of service to us. it is
that the copperhead is by no means
extinct, but that his treachery is
singularly futile against the heel of
a righteous public opinion.
A CLAIM TO BE RECOGNIZED.
One can readily believe that, when
the claims of Portland are presented
respecting the establishment of one
of the Shriners' subsidiary hospitals
for crippled children, the award will
unhesitatingly be made to this city.
Nor is there a trace of vainglory or
Impropriety in this confidence, pred
icated as it is upon the fact that,
together with manifest climatic and
locational advantages, Portland ai
teady is the recognized medical and
surgical center of the Pacific north
west, and has no rival In this respect
on the Pacific coast save San Fran
cisco. Naturally, therefore, the city
expects Mayor Baker to return from
Atlanta with definite assurance that,
of the two to be located in the west,
one of the children's hospitals will
be erected here.
Our JokesmiUis have, after the
1 privilege of their kind, found a mine
of merriment in the science of heal-
1 lng and its practitioners, but to the
deformed and ailing, and especially
to cripple children, that way lies
succor and happiness. He would be
a sorry wag. Indeed, who could dis
cover in the Hippocratic oath the
theme for jest or Jibe the ancient
pledge whose solemnity accords well
with the ethics and purpose of the
art of healing. Though the oath
Itself Is but a splendid tradition,
men know in their hearts that the
profession, as an entity, has kept it
sacred. Indeed, it is the spirit of the
Hippocratic oath which finds mod
ern expression In the establishment
and operation of hospitals such as
that now proposed.
Portland Is known throughout the
northwest, and America, for that
matter, for the number and excel
lence of her hospltais. The erection
here of the University of Oregon
medical school, rated as first-class
in every particular by the American
Medical association, clinched for the
c-lty her position as a hospital cen
ter. Various factors have con
tributed to render the location ideal
for such projects, and there can be
no question but that these will be
admirably set forth in the petition
that one of the Shrine hospitals be
given us
Hospitals, though each city is, or
should be, served by an adequate
numlfer to care for Its own needs.
are not located by haphazard choice
when the intent Is that thay should
serve large districts. Portland, for
example, is situated almest mid
way between that other Pacific
coast medical center, San Francisco,
and the Canadian boundary, and is
possessed of excellent rail facilities.
In considering the first requisite of
central location it would appear that
her claim is pre-eminent. But to
this locational advantage must be
added the even superior advantages
of pure air and water, and of an
even, temperate climate a climate
where human skill at healing is
furthered by nature herself.
Though the city is essentially an
industrial one, but few of the many
factories utilize coal as fuel, and at
no time does there cling to her
atmosphere the pall of soot, usually
inseparable from industrial activities.
The variations in temperature are
slight, comparatively speaking, and
hill and ocean winds are forever at
their business of renewing the fresh
ress that Is observed in Oregon air.
There is no season of the year in
which the convalescent is not 'in
vigorated and inspired by the green
of growing things and the sight of
outdoor flowers.
It follows naturally that the vari
ous hospitals already established in
Portland, equal if not superior to
those of other cities, constantly draw
patients from long distances from
cities, where there are hospital facil
ities adequate in any case, but where
there Is lacking the variety of at
tributes that combine to make this
the hospital center of the Pacific
northwest. It cannot be otherwise,
when the Shrine committee confers
with the Portland petitioners, than
that they, too, will be persuaded of
the manifest advantages of the Ore
gon location and will gladly avail
themselves of the offer of site and
assistance.
It is obvious, also, that the ad
vantages already enumerated have
drawn to Portland the highest type
of doctors and surgeons, and will
continue to do so. It is Bafe to pre
dict that, within a few years, at the
most, the clinics held in this city
will be renowned throughout Amer
ica and will have the Interested at
tention of men whose names are
large in the profession. The west
has for too long a time been some
what dependent upon the east in this
lespect. but vision and sincerity are
1 ow about to remedy the deficiency
and - give equal advantage to the
coast. - ,
There are hospitals and hospitals,
each with its sacred mission, but
somehow' the fancy dwells with
especial favor upon the plan for one
for crippled children children to
be made straight -and whole, that
they may have their heritage of the
good green world, with its flowers
and sunshine. Modern orthopedic
surgery works marvels in such cases,
and its benefits are Incalculable.
Surely Portland, as a place where
the spirit of healing already abides,
cannot be charged with selfish In
terests in pressing her claim for
recognition in this regard. We have
an opinion that such claims, if they
were not well founded, if they did
not give assurance that here and
nowhere else in the northwest is the
proper location, would be dropped
by the men who advance them. One
does not tamper with the chances of
a crippled child.
On learning that a statistician had
tredited his father with a fortune of
$2,400,000,000, John I. Rockefeller
Jr. dictated an Indignant protest.
The figure should not have been In
excess of $1,000,000,000, he said. So
far as the vast majority is con
cerned, the difference between one
and two billion Is a mere quibble.
Vbw .Torv nollcemen. In conven
tion assembled, resolved to protest j
against the satlrizatlon of "cops" in I
motion pictures. This Is an amazing J
piaini.. geubi aywiuawy vim
would have thought that nature had
provided thicker skins for patrolmen
on the beat of the far-famed New
Jersey mosquito.
When Lee Mee Gin left for China,
to spend his declining years, folk
should have given the kindly old
diplomat some token of farewell.
The toll of the tongs, in their war
tare, unquestionably was lessened by
his pacific efforts during many
years.
It is fitting that trees should com
memorate, along the Oregon Me
morial highway, those Oregon boys
who followed the colors. Joyce Kil
mer, who fell in France, phrased it
finely in his poem when he wrote
that "only God can make a tree."
How many citizens of American
birth could face the federal ludge
and ansVver the questions put to ap
plicants for naturalization?
The hermit of Rocky Butte says
that he is willing to move, and al
ready has located a wheelbarrow.
The most expensive spectacle of
fered by fall is the smoke haze over
the hills.
How comes It that Dr. Frederick
Cooke never thought of Mount
Everest?
1 AS PHILOSOPHER SKES WORLD
Kassaa Sajre Comments) ox Mraa
' Fablra anal Events of Day.
E. W. Howe In Howe's Monthly.
Man is free in his thoughts, but If
he is equally free in his acts, will
land in Jail.
There is nothing new; the only wajN
to do better is to do a good thing bet
ter than it has been done before.
Every man insists on his own judg
ment, however poor it may be, and
will not willingly permit others to
decide for him.
An unusual thing about the news
from Russia is that It is all unfavor
able; conditions there v. re so bad that
no one is willing to stamp himself as
an unmistakable rogue and fool by
speaking well of them.
So much advice is offered as good,
and which turns out to be had, that
I accept none that the giver has not
proved in his own life to be of value.
In other words, it is the good advice
of example that I respect.
It may be depended on that a great
majority fo the newspapers will sup
port the dangerous bonus bill, so
many reporters have been soldiers.
It is frequently necessary, however,
for the people to turn down news
paper advice.
I hear of an old fellow who thought
his relatives didn't treat him right,
and who went abroad and died there.
He Jiad a good deal of money and
was so mean that he arranged that
h's heirs in this country didn't hear
the good news until he had been
buried a month.
On May 1. 1921, In Toklo, Japan.
80.000 pagans marched through the
streets to protest against war propa
ganda. Have we Christians of the
United States made an equally force
ful demonstration against war propa
ganda? Have we not, on the contrary.
marched and shouted in aid of war
propaganda?
Why is the devil so unpopular? He
is a subject of the same king who
rules men. It Isn't the devil who
sends us to hell; he is merely the
Instrument of a higher power; the
devil could not extinguish hs terri
ble fire if he would. The devil should
no more be blamed than the sheriff
who puts men in jail or'hanga them,
You have no right to persecute me
because I am not religious. I am a
Budhist. A lot Is taught as Budhlsra
that Budha never taught. What he
taught at the beginning of his career,
I accept. Of course, as a leader he-
went rather farther than I can, with
my necessary duties as a layman, but
Budha ia my prophet; I'm no Infidel.
After a policeman captures a bandit,
particularly if he shoots one, he
should be discharged. The news
paper attention he receives because
of the exploit will ruin him for fu
ture usefulness as a peace officer.
This principle is true hi all human
affairs; after any man attracts great
public applause and attention, there
after his smart-aleck sde becomes so
prominent that he is disagreeable.
I personally know hundreds of
women I honor more than I honor
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, who is fa
mous. And she will become more
famous as time passes: it is tradition
and not fact that makes most great
reputations. In 50 years Mrs. Eddy
will be as famous as Joan of Arc, an
other woman I have never liked; In a
hundred years Mrs. Eddy may be the
prophet of the new religion, the
women having come into power, and
disposed of the various male saints.
When the English were coaxing us
to enter the war and prevent the hu
miliation of England, they talked
much about blood being thicker than
water. 'But they forget this in mak
ing their treaty with Japan. I have
always thouRht extremely well of the
Canadians, the Australians, the New
Zealanders and citixens of the South
African republic. I shall think more
of them In future because they have
given notice that if England ever
engages in a war with the United
States to assist its ally, Japan, Can
ada, Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa will fight with the
United States.
1' he ponderous professors are dis
cussing various plans for rehabilitat
ing the world after the destruction
of the war. Their essays are a waste
of time and money. A German busi
ness man named Ratheneau says more
in a few lines than the economist ex
perts have said In volumes. Says
Ratheneau: "It is all nonsense to
talk of taxes, budgets,' Imports and
exports; the only thing that counts is
hours of labor. The only real wealth
of Germany Is the 32.000,000.000 labor
hours at its disposal annually." Here
is the truth unadorned. The pro
fessors say business men know noth
ing of philosophy. The fact ia. they
bristle with it.
Herbert Hoover, with other people's
money, has about the biggest heart in
the world. He is now determined that
it is our duty to feed the Russians.
This Is not good advice. We should
see that no food supplies enter Rus
sia; as soon as these people realize
the necessity of feeding themselves
they will reform themselves, so far
as reform of that people is possible.
It is not wise for us to support the
Russians In Idleness while they set
tle their "problems." They have been
loafing and discussing them three or
four years and come to no sensible
conclusion.
Henry Ford's paper, the Dearborn
Independent, lately made a tremen
dous and sustained attack on tha
Jews. I. witnessed the battle from
the quiet advantage of a pamphlet
containing the articles. Two things
occurred to me in the reading: (1)
The cleverness of Mr. Ford's writing;
man who fired the shots. 42) Thai
if the Jewish rabbis would teach their
people fewer dogmas and more polite
ness, Jews and Gentiles would get
along better. The Jews are actually
a very wonderful people. I admire
their intelligence, their thrift, their
kindness to each other; their absence
from poor houses, brothels and the
soup line. The world has never ob
jected to either of these good quali
ties. It is the lack of manners Is
Jews that has attracted such marked
unfriendliness for them as exists. I
know that the better-class Jews are
polite, but there is about many of the
others a certain impudence and lack-
of manners that thoir parents should
have whipped out of them. The par
ents having failed in this duty, society
Is attempting it. If ordinary Jews
were as particular in practicing the
ordinary civilities of life as they are
in remembering old superstitions of
their race, they would be aa popular
as their many good qualities deserve.
Cement dinars to Iron
London Echo.
The adhesion of cement to iron that
gives strength to reinforce concrete
is found by an expert to be unlike
the gluing effect of mortar on bricks.
The cement does not stick to the Iron
firmly, if t all, but the. adhesion is
given by gripping a portion of In
closed Iron as the concrete contract
ia setting.
The Listening Post.
By DeWltt Harry.
F
OR seven .years the Portland Re
medial Loan association has ren
dered yoeman service to residents of
this city who have been In need of
ready cash. It Is the poor man's bank
where he can get a loan on chattels,
salary, pledges or other securities that
a commercial bank will not handle.
Business men in general admit that It
pas relieved a great deal of suffering
and want and enabled many deserving
people to pull out of tight difficulties.
But the poor man's bank is now
without funds. Hard times have
stripped it of most of its ready cash
and there is a waiting list for loans.
Many deserving cases, people who
have ample security for small sum,
have to be left out In the cold. All of
the money is lent and the managers
are at their wits' end to raise more
funds. They are even soliciting loans
for the bank on notes, offering 8 per
cent Interest. They are confronted by
an emergency.
The association is solvent. At the
present time It has on loan about
$131,000, of which $58,000 is, paid-in
i-npital and $73,000 borrowed funds.
The undivided profits to September 1
were $19,500 and the association has
I ledges in its possession worth $69.
500, chattel security valued at $78,700
ana salary security covering $5000.
The demands have Increased 100 per
cent over last year and they could
place $50,000 more on first-class se
curity within ten days if they could
obtain the funds. Loans are made of
from $1 to $300 and at the present
time only by appointment.
Portland's Loan association Is out
if the model establishments of its
kind in the country and its record
pTaces it near he front In efficient
management and the results It ob
tains, lu funds are all engaged and
new loans can now be made only at
old ones are paid in.
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This Is likely a fable but it listens
nice. Miss Nina Imhouse formerly
took want ads over a local counter
but is now administering gas In a
dentist's office among her varied
duties. A recent patient did not suc
cumb any too easily but in the course
ot time slept peacefully while an of
fending molar was extracted.
"How much?" he asked when he
came to.
"Three dollars," Nina is reported to
hRv-e said.
"Three dollars, for one tooth?"
"Yes, sir," she explained, "It was a
hard job getting the tooth out and
required twice the ordinary amount of
gas." '
"Well, here's the money," was the
grudging reply, "But the next time 1
take gas here I'll look at the meter
first."-
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There used to be some romance con
nected with Tennessee moonshiners,
revenue agenti. raids on stills and
Illegal manufacture of liquor, but your
American ot today la generally blase
a here such things are concerned.
This week a Sixth-street movie show
has been featuring a Tennessee moon
shiner on its bills, the mountaineer
appearing in person, bis still exhibited
.n front of the house.
To Judge from comments the Ten
1 esseeans owere not so much when it
came to craftsmanship. Few of the
tystandera thought a great deal of tha
Mill. It was generally called a back
number, an old model, no self-starter,
ignition system, generator, or' other
up-to-date attachments. The ISth
amendment is at least breeding a rauu
t f experts.
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At a public dance one of the most
popular men was much sought after,
but though all of the girls seemed
more than willing to dance with him
he returned again and again to one
iittle fairy. She soon became the tar
get for many venomous remarks
hlch were a mystery until a late
comer watched them together twice In
succession and turned to her com-!
panion:
"Look at Mabul. the lucky little
thing, copped that swell bootlegger."
And In a corner of the men's rest
room was a heap or empty flasks.
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Walter Prlchard Eaton goes Into
testacies over Oregon's Blng cherry
ii the New York Times. Bing, accord
ing to old timers, was a Burbank sort
of a celestial gentleman, a great fruit
expert who took full advantage of
conditions in this state and perfected
the cherry that has brought undying
fame to big name. Bing, the Chinese
horticulturist, completed his experi
ment by crossing a black republican
cherry with one of lighter color and
retained the virtues of both In his
perfected fruit.
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A recent issue ot a cafeteria house
organ gives the following tip to
countermen":
What pleases a customer and Is a
good trade building trick is always to
give a clean cup to your customer
when he comes for the second cup of
coffee."
Which causes Citizen to remark,
Why not apply the same rule to the
first cup?"
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Just a suggestion for the Eastmore
iand caddies and golf ball losers
keep an eye on the squirrels. A news
report tells of Canadian golfers whose
curiosity was aroused by the peculiar
manner in which the squirrels were
i cting and of their stalking one of the
l.ttle animals who had a cache of 41
balls. In tha aubfeiuent starch over
500 balls war found secreted In va
rious trees and nefts.
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One of our misguided acquaintance!
anted to know why homely women
carried mirrors and vanity bags and
took frequent peeks at their faces, lie
csked a woman friend and she told
him:
WelL we like to see if our hair is
neat and our hat stratxrht." He was
incoherent as he tried to explain that
he did not class her with the uglles.
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Innumerable persons look on a
newspaper as a means for personal
gain, for furthering their own ends,
enhancing their position or gratify
ing their vanity by means of pub
licity. It is a. delicate tisk to deal
with tnese press-aaented people, to
discourage their efforts and ambitious
schemes. Occasionally a news-paper
hag an opportunity to do a good turn.
This is one t'me. and J. H. Alexander
of Synarep, Wash.. 76 years of age,
not able to work, and with little left
to care for himself, is the reason.
Alexander sends in an ad to the
classified section of . The Oregonian
offering; his life story for le. a tale,
according to himself, of capture and
torture at the hands of plains Indians
60 years ago. He has not much
money, not enough even to pay In
Its entirety the advertising bill, and
he Is taking his desperate chance to
retrieve his fortunes. It seems fate
Is hard to put one who made the
overland trip in such straits.
The Proof.
II 7 Urare K. Hall.
I've walked with you in fancy, dear.
Upon the sunlit hills.
And known unspoken depths of cheer.
And nameless tender thrills;
Hand clasped in hand, we've tarried
long.
When all the world was gay.
And nature's voices were a song
That charmed the hours away.
And I have asked my bounding heart
If love perchance had rome.
If nature's songs were but a part
Of all that love had done;
And then in fancy, still with you,
I paced a valley Brim.
Where phantom figures wandered
through
The shadows deep and dim.
And oh, I knelt beside you there
In agony and tears.
And sped a sudden frenzied prayer.
Born of my anguished fears;
And I asked of my Srozcn heart
If it would be as true
When down a pain-wrought path its
part
Would be to walk by you '
No need to wait for its reply
At last I knew! I knew!
A MOTHER'S PROBLEM.
He cannot be a lumberjack
His daddy works at that.
And logging Is too dangerous
So that Is settled flat.
He cannot be a president.
For you'll agree 'tis true
That presidents are railed against
For everything; they do.
In spite of all his cleverness
Or any natural bent
He shan't be made a scape-goat
Like a U. S. president!
A politician you suggest?
Why surely you are daft!
No son of mine shall follow
That polished trade of graft.
And if he followed real estate
Or law, 'twould prostrate me;
My son must be too honest
To succeed at those, you see.
He can't be an Inventor
For I know beyond a doubt
That he'd electrocute himself
Or burn his family out!
He cannot be a minister
For sadly I suspect
I.Ike -ther ministers, he'd live
On bounteous neglect. 1
His wife would look so "tacky"
And his children underfed.
While you and I supported
The movie shows Instead.
An author's works aren't popular
Till he has starved and died.
A farmer mortgages his place
For a Ford in which to ride.
I'll be obliged If you can give
Some good advice to me.
When he has grown to manhood'!
years.
What can my baby be?
JULIA REESE OSBORN.
O.X WITH THK DiXfE."
Where are the dances of long ago?
Where are the stately minuets?
'Twas once the rage, each powdered
beau
The measures trod with sweet Ba-
bette.
Alas, 'tis gone, it! grandeur slow.
Has given place to "Tickle-Toe."
Ve olde tyme danse our mothers knew,
Where la the quaint Virginia Reel?
Quadrilles, Gavottes, Cottlllons, too.
With courtsey low the partners kneel.
Ye dan sci Ye damsels used to do,
Mvl now, we have the "Kangaroo."
The Tolka. that was once the rage,
'1'waa learned by every dame of
fashion
And danced upon the public stage.
My Paris dancing-mnsters dashln',
'lis gone, 'tis gone, but nut forgot
Cheer up we have the "Cootie-Trot."
The walu and schottlsche of today
Art- just "A rose by any name."
While deiuut. ten-piece Ja2 bands
play :
The dances all look Just the same.
Jt,Ft Shane "A wicked foot." that'i
ho
Tluy iiun.-e the waits and schottlsche
now.
The dances gay of yester-year
Are memories ot a by-gone day.
On with the dance, "The Camel Walk"
Ut "iiltchen-Sink," make shoulders
sway
"Chicken-Scratch," "Cheek," "Shlm-
mey." too
V here Is the dance ' our mothers
' knew?
W. A. JACKSON.
OMISSION.
If death should gently fold her to his
breast.
With that soft, child-like smile
upon her face.
That, loath to leave its earthly
resting place.
Hovers, uncertain, round its empty
nest;
If death, from those still bands, the
tools should wrest.
That formed the glory of the mystic
lace
Of her soul's pattern here the only
trace
Of her who wrought from their dull
edge the best
That love can shape; In dally, patient
strife
To fend the blow from poverty's
coarse hand
On those she loved grant, father,
when I stand
Before that wondrous Word who
gives us life,
I left not, whan I hea- his bent
son. No word, nor deed of love, for her
undone!
MARY A. WOODWARD.
tiif: opkn road 1021.
New York Tribune.
Bill, let's take the road together.
Let us tramp the open way.
We will face the August weather; '
Leave behind us yesterday
With its load of heavy sorrow.
We will seek horlxnna far.
Faces turning towards the morrow
(Squ-a-a-ak ') Look out! Here
cornea a car.
Tramping vagabonds, we two.
Leaving all our cares behind.
Winds are keen and skies are blue
(Honk! 'Ma matter? You guys
blind?)
SkU-s are blue as we have raid,
Lightest hearts our only load,
As we gaily force ahead
(Toot-toot! Think ya own the
road?) Winds and clouds will be our males
(Br-r-r ha-woosh! Ya gol-darncd
hick!)
We shall laugh at all the fates -Here's
another. Jump, Bill. Quick!
All the fates, then, to resume.
Cannot make us fret or bother;
Open roads are free from Bloom
Climb that fence. Here comes in
another. PAHAiF
This out of all I have pondered.
That life Is a fleeting; span.
And for all I have dreamt and won
dered I die just as any man!
I came as the storm-tossed lightning.
A flash, then the dark again,
t pssg as the meteor, brightening.
Fades through the starry plain.
A. R. WET J EN.